​With the 4th of July right around the corner, this is a subject that many people will find useful!​ Outside barbecues, pool parties, picnics and outdoor sports all will cause people to be out in the sun longer than they normally are. Many people will use common sense and make sure to generously apply sunscreen, but even then it can be washed off by sweat, or watered down by swimming, leaving part or all of your skin open to the burning rays of the sun. Some, of course, will not wear sunscreen at all, so they are doubly susceptible to getting sunburn. Ouch!

A Delicious Chilled Salad for Summer Meals

If you garden like I do, you have an abundance of fresh vegetables in the summer months. I have so many that I keep a separate folder of recipes just for vegetable recipes that are great cold summer meals. This cauliflower salad recipe is one of my favorites. You can make it as a side, or as the main dish. It's easy to make and extremely inexpensive if you have a vegetable garden!​

​Hard to believe it's been 9 weeks since we bought our meat chicks. In that time they went from chicks to teenagers to adults ready to harvest. It really was unbelievable how quickly they grew up, so much faster than the laying hen chicks we bought at the same time. I would say the rate at which the meat birds grew was almost double to the rate of the laying hens, on the same food. They also ate a lot more! I noticed the meat birds didn't really do much of anything other than eat and roost.